Liars are failing upwards. For current examples think of George Santos and Andrew Tate, they are moving up in position while failing along the way.
Our culture rewards lying and we need to create a culture that doesn’t reward lying by rewarding truth.
Truth is being choked out. We see this in major corporations and state governments going after truthful journalists.
Examples include Erik Prince, nephew of billionaire Betsy Devoss who is behind Moms for Liberty trying to destroy public education, Erik is trying to sue Jeremy Scahill of The Intercept into submission. As well as Popular Information being called “fake news” by Florida state commissioner Manny Diaz Jr. These news organizations provide fearless and adversarial journalism, which seems to have touched a nerve.
Erik Prince, the billionaire mercenary who founded the private security firm Blackwater, is taking another run at his defamation suit against The Intercept — for the third time.
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We need to uphold real journalism through crowdsourcing by donating to truthful journalism.
The power is with us. The power is with our behavior, with our patronage. We need to support the things we want to survive.
The power is in the individual. It takes individual action to form collective action.